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Chicago and vicinity â€” part ly cloudy yesterday's tem peratures highest 26 lowest 15 average 20.5 Chicago examiner vol xiii no 5 a m monday Chicago december 28 1914 monday kegistered d s patent office prtcf onf fcwt in ohicajo and i etsbwhtkb rru^c kjrstl i subuit i two cents gunmen slay man of mystery money and jewelry of victim is untouched diamond ring ruby pin and 29 found on victim shot to death several hear shots and rush out to find assailants gone the urgent need of more police and better police pro tection in Chicago was tragic ally illustrated last night when a young man was mur dered at kilbourne avenue and nevada street he was shot down near the street cor ner but the sound of the shots brought out only the residents in the immediate vicinity and the murderers escaped in easy fashion e police were w 'â– ith i another murder wliieli promises to j rival in mystery any of the number yet unsolved when a well-dressed man was found dead with a bullet wound in his head on the curb at kilbourne avenue and nevada street last night this latest victim was discovered only a few minutes after he was slain but his assailant or assailants had disappeared he wore a costly dia mond ring and a ruby stickpin and had 29 in his pockets there was found a receipt dated christinas day for the diamond ring a solitaire and perhaps an engage ment ring in one of the pockets it bore tin name of the jewelry firm of abraham Taft 843 milwaukee avenue and in the same pocket were a num | ber of complimentary tickets for a new year's eve dance marked lyric b a Taft could not be located by the po lice last night but it is believed he may be able to throw some light on the victim's identity which up to a late hour last night was not estab lished may identify bodv prarik lipman president of the lyric benevolent association which issued the tickets to the dance stated hat ho might bo able to identify the body and said he would view it this morning shortly before o'clock k g tor kelson 4508 nevada street heard three revolver shots fired rapidly al most below his window he went out and found the body of a young man lying face downward in the snow the wounded man attempted to speak but had not strength and soon lost consciousness torkelson assisted by neighbors also attracted by the shots carried the man into his house where he died before a physician arrived the bullet had entered the jaw at the left and emerged at the back of the head yraiiggle indicated an examination of the spot where the body was found showed signs of a struggle also there were foot prints to indicate that at least three or possibly four men had participated the victim's clothing was torn in places showing where he had shaken off the grip of his assailants the man was about twenty-four ; years old he was 5 feet 8 inches in height weighed about 160 pounds had black hair rather long and was smooth shaver his suit was of dark expensive ma terial inside a coat p'ocket was em broidered the name mcgraw and the initials e.l z in the band of his soft felt hat were t initials j c or j z but they were al most completely worn away the police iÂ»f the cragin station were notified and searched the vicin ity but no one was found who wit nessed the murder or had seen any suspicious characters around that the murdered man still wore jewelry and had money in his pockets indi cated the police believe that he was lain for revenge or as a result of mistaken identity the body was placed in the morgue of an undertaking establishmenl ii 30p armitage avenue fire scares rich folk on lake shore blaze in the exclusive stewart apartments at division street awakens wealthy families occupants of the fashionable stew art apartments at lake shore drive and division street were aroused yes terday when fire broke out on the thirteenth floor and smoke filled the building the clanging of the fire apparatus and the rushing of firemen through the marble halls of the magnificent structure brought out in dishabille some of chicago's most prominent so ciety women and clubmen valets and french maids ran up and down the halls with hands upraised in protest at the noise which was awakening their masters and mis tresses only to be pushed aside by the firemen as they rushed their hose up to the top floor among the residents in the apart ments are mr and mrs james w thorne mr and mrs chauncey keep henry blair keep miss katherine p keep clarence a coolidge mr and mrs charles a chapin miss ruby chapin mr and mrs john k lyon mr and mrs william h mitchell and mrs marguerite mitchell sheriff girl 18 ends life when out of work iters eighteen years old a stenographer committed sui cide last night by inhaling gas in the room where she lived at 7.134 wood lawn avenue she had supported her mother until she lost her position and she also feared she was a consumptive she left a letter to her sister mrs goldie clark 1207 catalpa avenue which read : dear sister take care of mother goldie i tried but my weakness overcame me grace stone will succeed bryan is report washington dec 27 the most important political rumor of recent months now says william j bryan will retire from the cabinet soon and be succeeded by william j stone senior senator from missouri and chairman of the foreign relations committee of the senate bryan's political aspirations for 1916 and dis satisfaction in southern states over his mexican policies are said to be the cause of the reported move taf t's favorite dish mailed to roosevelt new york dec 27 â€” burglars well done with sweet potatoes on the side that may be one of the courses at a rooseveltian new year's dinner frank niemak at the hotel delavan sayville l l heard intruders in the cellar grabbing a shotgun he let fly and found the bodies of two juicy opossums he parcel posted the pos sums to oyster bay paderewski brother is killed in battle london dec 27 â€” a geneva dis patch to the express states that ig nace paderewski pianist has been notified that his brother was killed in the fighting in poland poll fraud in joe cannon vote charged . terre haute official graft in quiry branches off into paris 111 when floaters tell of their activity in this state terre haute ind dec 27 the raid of the federal district at torney and grand jury on terre haute election crooks which has re sulted in 127 indictments and the imprisonment of almost every im portant officer of this city including the mayor the sheriff and the judge of the circuit court has now extend ed over to paris 111 and will call in question the election of uncle joe cannon one of the come-backs at the november election evidence was given before the fed eral grand jury that not only did thirty-one floaters from paris come over the state line and vote at 5 a head but that no fewer than 700 of them had been bought by some one representing the standpat g o p i machine and had cast their fraudulent i votes for uncle joe in the Illinois congressional election deniocrats and republicans alike charge the evidence is due to polit ical animus but both sides look alike to united states district attorney frank c dailey and he is getting indictments with perfect impartial ity before the grand jury many have confessed i find the republicans conducted a conspiracy of their own said dailey last night the grand jury will meet again january 4 when we shall question the witnesses who know all about it thirty of forty men who had part in the plot have confessed and are at liberty on their own recognizance ! it is confidently expected several of the republican candidates at the no vember election will be indicted and perhaps some of the " higher-ups who handled the money â€” perhaps even those who provided it even the progressives are involved and the indictment of at least four of them who served on election boards is pre dicted the corruption extended to the congressional election and the grand j jury declared in its finding an at tempt was made to have declared elected a candidate for congress who ' was not elected the man finally de clared elected is congressman ralph moss cahtjyoiv charge accident the bringing of cannon's election into the case was purely accidental it was while taking the evidence of several floaters who confessed they had been hired to come into indiana and vote that it transpired they had done a similar service in their own state they came from paris 111 which during all the years uncle joe was regularly re-elected was al ways counted on to roll up a big ma jority for him mayor roberts may make an effort to procure his release to-morrow mayor roberts wife went to indian apolis to-day to see if bond could not be procored at once but was told this could not be done sunday mrs roberts procured a blank bond from mark storen united states marshal and was expected to return to-night to terre haute when i am acquitted you will see a bigger demonstration than when i was acquitted by the state courts he said and then i will be nom inated and elected governor of in diana in 1916 miss dodge finest business brain dead â– new york dec 27 â€” miss grace hoadley dodge philanthropic educa tional and religious worker died sud denly this morning of heart disease she was in her early sixties miss dodge probably was best known as president of the national board of the t w c a she was also treasurer of the teachers college of columbia uni versity the elder j p morgan once said she had the finest business brain in the united states city fund for idle demand by aldermen committee appointed to investi gate problem of unemployed makes report containing rad ical feature a recommendation that the city of Chicago take upon itself the bur den of unemployment among thou sands in the city y finding them work or providing honorable main tenance to be called unemployment insurance is a feature of a report to be made to-night to the mayor and the city council by the municipal markets commission the principal recommendations of the commission are the appointment of a commit tee of ten to study the problems and advise with the commission a municipal free employment bureau to take the place of the three state bureaus which are condemned public work to be carried on in times of business depression and the employment of the idle by the day instead of on contract work employment of Chicago men to the exclusion of floaters as far as possible urging employers to give at least part employment in time of stress instead of closing down entirely # aiding the county agent and the charitable organizations and the avoidance of bread lines and soup kitchens demanding that lodgers at the municipal lodging houses work for their shelter vocational schools reduction of peddlers license fees insurance by the city against workingmen losing jobs a suggestion also is made though it is not embodied in the formal rec ommendations that only cripples be licensed to sell newspapers on the street stands the state employment bureaus says the report fail to meet the problem in the slightest degree and the city should begin plans for an employment exchange of the first order private agencies also are criticised the report declaring that labor agents often arrange with foremen that la borers shall be discharged after a certain time the radical recommendation that advising unemployment insurance reads in part provision should be made for the honorable maintenance at public ex pense of the surplus laborers who cannot be placed in employment by the municipal employment office on public works or on part-time work it is urged that the city of Chicago undertake a system of insurance for the unemployed after the municipal employment bureau has accumulated a sufficient amount of exact data con cerning the amount of unemployment prevailing in Chicago annually in ex cess of those who can be placed in employment through the agencies suggested in this practical plan the commission was appointed last august its members are alderman james h lawley chairman alder man august krumholz alderman john toman mrs c franklin leavitt mrs john c bley miss gertrude v soule fred a curtis and professor graham taylor the secretary is frederick-kex genevieve clark to wed editor she met at baltimore engagement of speaker's daugh ter and j m thompson of . new orleans told . washington : dec 27 speaker champ clark and mrs clark an nounced the engagement to-night of their daughter genevieve to james m thomson owner and publisher of the new orleans item the wedding will take place in | honey shuck the clark home in bowl ing green mo in the spring or early summer the details of the wedding or the attendants have not been ar ranged the picturesque feature of the ro mance is that miss clark and thom son met at the baltimore convention where speaker clark led on so many ! ballots for the presidential nomina tion thomson was an original clark man in louisiana and his powerful paper had been a consistent clark organ in the southland a mutual friend introduced him to the speaker's daughter the couple met again in washington at the time of president wilson's inauguration and the acquaintance ripened into friendship thomson is a member of an old virginia family and the son of dr and mrs augustus pembroke thomson of summit peak w va his first newspaper experience was in washington where he was on the washington post and served as a special correspondent for several out of town papers in 1900 he purchased the norfolk va dispatch seven years later he entered the new or leans newspaper field as owner and publisher of the item the bride-elect is one of the most popular girls of washington society she made her debut on new year's day last year and 5,000 persons at tended the reception last thanks giving day she passes her twentieth birthday and is a graduate of the friends school of washington miss clark has been foremost in the worth while . activities of the capital miss genevieve clark highwaymen in knee breeches get man's cash two little boys of Chicago were out late last evening they were absent from the family fireside even as late as 9 o'clock when they should have been sleepily closing their spell ing books and going to bed it might have been thought that they were up to some mischief â€” ringing people's doorbells or playing tick tack but this is what happened charles g haight director of the Illinois marine band was walking along north shore avenue as he was passing number 1127 two young sters in knee breeches ran toward him from a dark area way hold up your hands came the piping voice of the first and then haight saw that each of the boys carried in his trembling right hand an automatic revolver drop those things cried haight drop em at once it's dangerous â€” boys like you that's no way to play up with your hands â€” quick cried the second boy if you think this is a joke you'll get shot and looking into the eyes of the children haight read something which amazed him â€” and his hands went up the boys were not highly skilled at searching pockets â€” for they still lack experience but they wero thorough when they turned ano ran they had haight's purse contain ing sis and they had his jewelry worth 100 he says and then he told the rogers park police teutons in battle to end says dernburg stories that austria is seeking peace terms denounced by noted diplomatist as false sent out by britain new york dec 27 that aus tria should desert her ally germany and seek terms of peace with rus sia ceding to the latter bosnia and galicia was pronounced not only ab surd but undoubtedly a lie con cocted in london to shake the faith of the kaiser's friends in america by prominent germans in new york to-night said dr bernard dern biirg immediately after the publication of this absurdity dr durnba the austrian ambassador to the united states branded it as a falsehood and a falsehood it is it is so in conceivable that i cannot even dis cuss it as a possibility how it would or whether it would affect germany is a question impossible to discuss as the story was put forth for no other reason than to create a discussion that would soon be dis torted into such shape that people would begin to believe there was something to it dumba denies austria is seeking peace terms washington dec 27 dr con ! stantin theodor dumba austro hungarian ambassador made em phatic denial to-night of reports that his country has made overtures to russia or any other power for peace he said to the examiner correspond ent such reports are a revival of old stories that have been discredited there is not a word of truth in them and absolutely no foundation for their circulation anybody who knows the situation will understand that from the very nature of things such a statement could not be true i hope the exam iner will deny them emphatically parker sees austrian move as a possibility by sir gilbert parker london dec 27 1t is possible that austria has made unofficial and indirect overtures to russia because her situation is desperate it is also possible but not probable that ger many has made overtures to russia she would only make such overtures when her case was desperate it is not yet desperate to make such overtures would be confession both of weakness and des peration personally i don't think germany has been so foolish could she conceive that russia would tear up her bond with great britain and france as she germany tore up the treaty with belgium does she think chat every nation is infamous 2vo gain by treachery suppose russia assented to a treaty of peace with germany and austria it would involve an alliance with ger many and austria to enforce a treaty ot peace to which they would agree i does the world think that even j if such ghastly treachery were done < by russia england and franca ' only one man lost in british sea raid ships stand by under terrific fire from germans cannon to rescue aviators who fall into the water constantinople dec 28 3:38 a m an official com munication issued sunday says one of our warships on decem ber 24 met a russian squadron composed of five battleships two cruisers ten destroyers and three mine layers the turkish ship sin glehanded during the night at tacked and bombarded the battle ship rostislav and sank the two mine layers oleg and athos twoi russian officers and thirty sailors were rescued and taken prisoners i simultaneously another portion of our fleet successfully bombarded batum on december 25 in the forenoon two of our ships offered battle to the russian fleet which letreated to sebastopol london dec~27 â€” the dutch steamer leersum struck a mine and sank in the north sea to-day two of the crew of nineteen were , drowned the others were landed at scarborough the british steam er gallier struck a mine and was severely injured she reached scarborough london dec 27 e ngland learned to-day from its own admir alty the story of the british raid on cuxhaven and the nation thrilled with the glow of patriotic pride it was not so much the daring of the british raiders in creeping pasi the fortress island of heligoland re garded as one of the most impreg nable strongholds in the world and then past the fortified island of nen werk with a great network of mine . fields intervening to reach cux haven it was not so much the prompt ness with which the admiralty set about to avenge in kind mm german raid on scarborough and hartlepool stood by to rhsscuk am nor was it so much the remai able composition of the avenging fleet which included the most mod ern of light warships the armed and armored ultramodern hydroaero planes and the most terrific of naval war machines the submarines all of which made the raid and returned home successfully but the fact that appealed to ths british sportsman's heart â€” and most every briton is a sportsman â€” was that while the british air pilots wi gone on up to the schlllig roads to ' bombard the german battle hi from the air the lighi cruisers â– stroyers and submarines stood by until the last of the airmen hud been accounted for though for th hours and more they were ass i furiously from the air and from under the sea by a terrific attack of bombs and torpedoes from zeppelins and submarines a berlin dispatch to the exchange telegram company says the british attack on cuxhaven caused the greatest excitement throughout ger many the extent of the damage in flicted upon the german sfliipi is be ing kept hidden in official ein the german public is criticising efficiency of the mine field of heli goland bight through which the british warships steamed the daily mail's copenhagen cor respondent says he learns from ham burg that considerable damage was caused at cuxhaven by th british air raid for unexampled daring for bril liancy fif execution a-pj r pefltur'es introduced i haven raid â– â– >â– * : - " down into history i:s the moal ren val feat yet accomplished the battle furnished one great mil itary lesson â€” that dirigibles of i continued on 2d page 4th column extra the examiner's annual review will be issued january ist a thoughtful issue of progress and business be sure you get it t

Chicago and vicinity â€” part ly cloudy yesterday's tem peratures highest 26 lowest 15 average 20.5 Chicago examiner vol xiii no 5 a m monday Chicago december 28 1914 monday kegistered d s patent office prtcf onf fcwt in ohicajo and i etsbwhtkb rru^c kjrstl i subuit i two cents gunmen slay man of mystery money and jewelry of victim is untouched diamond ring ruby pin and 29 found on victim shot to death several hear shots and rush out to find assailants gone the urgent need of more police and better police pro tection in Chicago was tragic ally illustrated last night when a young man was mur dered at kilbourne avenue and nevada street he was shot down near the street cor ner but the sound of the shots brought out only the residents in the immediate vicinity and the murderers escaped in easy fashion e police were w 'â– ith i another murder wliieli promises to j rival in mystery any of the number yet unsolved when a well-dressed man was found dead with a bullet wound in his head on the curb at kilbourne avenue and nevada street last night this latest victim was discovered only a few minutes after he was slain but his assailant or assailants had disappeared he wore a costly dia mond ring and a ruby stickpin and had 29 in his pockets there was found a receipt dated christinas day for the diamond ring a solitaire and perhaps an engage ment ring in one of the pockets it bore tin name of the jewelry firm of abraham Taft 843 milwaukee avenue and in the same pocket were a num | ber of complimentary tickets for a new year's eve dance marked lyric b a Taft could not be located by the po lice last night but it is believed he may be able to throw some light on the victim's identity which up to a late hour last night was not estab lished may identify bodv prarik lipman president of the lyric benevolent association which issued the tickets to the dance stated hat ho might bo able to identify the body and said he would view it this morning shortly before o'clock k g tor kelson 4508 nevada street heard three revolver shots fired rapidly al most below his window he went out and found the body of a young man lying face downward in the snow the wounded man attempted to speak but had not strength and soon lost consciousness torkelson assisted by neighbors also attracted by the shots carried the man into his house where he died before a physician arrived the bullet had entered the jaw at the left and emerged at the back of the head yraiiggle indicated an examination of the spot where the body was found showed signs of a struggle also there were foot prints to indicate that at least three or possibly four men had participated the victim's clothing was torn in places showing where he had shaken off the grip of his assailants the man was about twenty-four ; years old he was 5 feet 8 inches in height weighed about 160 pounds had black hair rather long and was smooth shaver his suit was of dark expensive ma terial inside a coat p'ocket was em broidered the name mcgraw and the initials e.l z in the band of his soft felt hat were t initials j c or j z but they were al most completely worn away the police iÂ»f the cragin station were notified and searched the vicin ity but no one was found who wit nessed the murder or had seen any suspicious characters around that the murdered man still wore jewelry and had money in his pockets indi cated the police believe that he was lain for revenge or as a result of mistaken identity the body was placed in the morgue of an undertaking establishmenl ii 30p armitage avenue fire scares rich folk on lake shore blaze in the exclusive stewart apartments at division street awakens wealthy families occupants of the fashionable stew art apartments at lake shore drive and division street were aroused yes terday when fire broke out on the thirteenth floor and smoke filled the building the clanging of the fire apparatus and the rushing of firemen through the marble halls of the magnificent structure brought out in dishabille some of chicago's most prominent so ciety women and clubmen valets and french maids ran up and down the halls with hands upraised in protest at the noise which was awakening their masters and mis tresses only to be pushed aside by the firemen as they rushed their hose up to the top floor among the residents in the apart ments are mr and mrs james w thorne mr and mrs chauncey keep henry blair keep miss katherine p keep clarence a coolidge mr and mrs charles a chapin miss ruby chapin mr and mrs john k lyon mr and mrs william h mitchell and mrs marguerite mitchell sheriff girl 18 ends life when out of work iters eighteen years old a stenographer committed sui cide last night by inhaling gas in the room where she lived at 7.134 wood lawn avenue she had supported her mother until she lost her position and she also feared she was a consumptive she left a letter to her sister mrs goldie clark 1207 catalpa avenue which read : dear sister take care of mother goldie i tried but my weakness overcame me grace stone will succeed bryan is report washington dec 27 the most important political rumor of recent months now says william j bryan will retire from the cabinet soon and be succeeded by william j stone senior senator from missouri and chairman of the foreign relations committee of the senate bryan's political aspirations for 1916 and dis satisfaction in southern states over his mexican policies are said to be the cause of the reported move taf t's favorite dish mailed to roosevelt new york dec 27 â€” burglars well done with sweet potatoes on the side that may be one of the courses at a rooseveltian new year's dinner frank niemak at the hotel delavan sayville l l heard intruders in the cellar grabbing a shotgun he let fly and found the bodies of two juicy opossums he parcel posted the pos sums to oyster bay paderewski brother is killed in battle london dec 27 â€” a geneva dis patch to the express states that ig nace paderewski pianist has been notified that his brother was killed in the fighting in poland poll fraud in joe cannon vote charged . terre haute official graft in quiry branches off into paris 111 when floaters tell of their activity in this state terre haute ind dec 27 the raid of the federal district at torney and grand jury on terre haute election crooks which has re sulted in 127 indictments and the imprisonment of almost every im portant officer of this city including the mayor the sheriff and the judge of the circuit court has now extend ed over to paris 111 and will call in question the election of uncle joe cannon one of the come-backs at the november election evidence was given before the fed eral grand jury that not only did thirty-one floaters from paris come over the state line and vote at 5 a head but that no fewer than 700 of them had been bought by some one representing the standpat g o p i machine and had cast their fraudulent i votes for uncle joe in the Illinois congressional election deniocrats and republicans alike charge the evidence is due to polit ical animus but both sides look alike to united states district attorney frank c dailey and he is getting indictments with perfect impartial ity before the grand jury many have confessed i find the republicans conducted a conspiracy of their own said dailey last night the grand jury will meet again january 4 when we shall question the witnesses who know all about it thirty of forty men who had part in the plot have confessed and are at liberty on their own recognizance ! it is confidently expected several of the republican candidates at the no vember election will be indicted and perhaps some of the " higher-ups who handled the money â€” perhaps even those who provided it even the progressives are involved and the indictment of at least four of them who served on election boards is pre dicted the corruption extended to the congressional election and the grand j jury declared in its finding an at tempt was made to have declared elected a candidate for congress who ' was not elected the man finally de clared elected is congressman ralph moss cahtjyoiv charge accident the bringing of cannon's election into the case was purely accidental it was while taking the evidence of several floaters who confessed they had been hired to come into indiana and vote that it transpired they had done a similar service in their own state they came from paris 111 which during all the years uncle joe was regularly re-elected was al ways counted on to roll up a big ma jority for him mayor roberts may make an effort to procure his release to-morrow mayor roberts wife went to indian apolis to-day to see if bond could not be procored at once but was told this could not be done sunday mrs roberts procured a blank bond from mark storen united states marshal and was expected to return to-night to terre haute when i am acquitted you will see a bigger demonstration than when i was acquitted by the state courts he said and then i will be nom inated and elected governor of in diana in 1916 miss dodge finest business brain dead â– new york dec 27 â€” miss grace hoadley dodge philanthropic educa tional and religious worker died sud denly this morning of heart disease she was in her early sixties miss dodge probably was best known as president of the national board of the t w c a she was also treasurer of the teachers college of columbia uni versity the elder j p morgan once said she had the finest business brain in the united states city fund for idle demand by aldermen committee appointed to investi gate problem of unemployed makes report containing rad ical feature a recommendation that the city of Chicago take upon itself the bur den of unemployment among thou sands in the city y finding them work or providing honorable main tenance to be called unemployment insurance is a feature of a report to be made to-night to the mayor and the city council by the municipal markets commission the principal recommendations of the commission are the appointment of a commit tee of ten to study the problems and advise with the commission a municipal free employment bureau to take the place of the three state bureaus which are condemned public work to be carried on in times of business depression and the employment of the idle by the day instead of on contract work employment of Chicago men to the exclusion of floaters as far as possible urging employers to give at least part employment in time of stress instead of closing down entirely # aiding the county agent and the charitable organizations and the avoidance of bread lines and soup kitchens demanding that lodgers at the municipal lodging houses work for their shelter vocational schools reduction of peddlers license fees insurance by the city against workingmen losing jobs a suggestion also is made though it is not embodied in the formal rec ommendations that only cripples be licensed to sell newspapers on the street stands the state employment bureaus says the report fail to meet the problem in the slightest degree and the city should begin plans for an employment exchange of the first order private agencies also are criticised the report declaring that labor agents often arrange with foremen that la borers shall be discharged after a certain time the radical recommendation that advising unemployment insurance reads in part provision should be made for the honorable maintenance at public ex pense of the surplus laborers who cannot be placed in employment by the municipal employment office on public works or on part-time work it is urged that the city of Chicago undertake a system of insurance for the unemployed after the municipal employment bureau has accumulated a sufficient amount of exact data con cerning the amount of unemployment prevailing in Chicago annually in ex cess of those who can be placed in employment through the agencies suggested in this practical plan the commission was appointed last august its members are alderman james h lawley chairman alder man august krumholz alderman john toman mrs c franklin leavitt mrs john c bley miss gertrude v soule fred a curtis and professor graham taylor the secretary is frederick-kex genevieve clark to wed editor she met at baltimore engagement of speaker's daugh ter and j m thompson of . new orleans told . washington : dec 27 speaker champ clark and mrs clark an nounced the engagement to-night of their daughter genevieve to james m thomson owner and publisher of the new orleans item the wedding will take place in | honey shuck the clark home in bowl ing green mo in the spring or early summer the details of the wedding or the attendants have not been ar ranged the picturesque feature of the ro mance is that miss clark and thom son met at the baltimore convention where speaker clark led on so many ! ballots for the presidential nomina tion thomson was an original clark man in louisiana and his powerful paper had been a consistent clark organ in the southland a mutual friend introduced him to the speaker's daughter the couple met again in washington at the time of president wilson's inauguration and the acquaintance ripened into friendship thomson is a member of an old virginia family and the son of dr and mrs augustus pembroke thomson of summit peak w va his first newspaper experience was in washington where he was on the washington post and served as a special correspondent for several out of town papers in 1900 he purchased the norfolk va dispatch seven years later he entered the new or leans newspaper field as owner and publisher of the item the bride-elect is one of the most popular girls of washington society she made her debut on new year's day last year and 5,000 persons at tended the reception last thanks giving day she passes her twentieth birthday and is a graduate of the friends school of washington miss clark has been foremost in the worth while . activities of the capital miss genevieve clark highwaymen in knee breeches get man's cash two little boys of Chicago were out late last evening they were absent from the family fireside even as late as 9 o'clock when they should have been sleepily closing their spell ing books and going to bed it might have been thought that they were up to some mischief â€” ringing people's doorbells or playing tick tack but this is what happened charles g haight director of the Illinois marine band was walking along north shore avenue as he was passing number 1127 two young sters in knee breeches ran toward him from a dark area way hold up your hands came the piping voice of the first and then haight saw that each of the boys carried in his trembling right hand an automatic revolver drop those things cried haight drop em at once it's dangerous â€” boys like you that's no way to play up with your hands â€” quick cried the second boy if you think this is a joke you'll get shot and looking into the eyes of the children haight read something which amazed him â€” and his hands went up the boys were not highly skilled at searching pockets â€” for they still lack experience but they wero thorough when they turned ano ran they had haight's purse contain ing sis and they had his jewelry worth 100 he says and then he told the rogers park police teutons in battle to end says dernburg stories that austria is seeking peace terms denounced by noted diplomatist as false sent out by britain new york dec 27 that aus tria should desert her ally germany and seek terms of peace with rus sia ceding to the latter bosnia and galicia was pronounced not only ab surd but undoubtedly a lie con cocted in london to shake the faith of the kaiser's friends in america by prominent germans in new york to-night said dr bernard dern biirg immediately after the publication of this absurdity dr durnba the austrian ambassador to the united states branded it as a falsehood and a falsehood it is it is so in conceivable that i cannot even dis cuss it as a possibility how it would or whether it would affect germany is a question impossible to discuss as the story was put forth for no other reason than to create a discussion that would soon be dis torted into such shape that people would begin to believe there was something to it dumba denies austria is seeking peace terms washington dec 27 dr con ! stantin theodor dumba austro hungarian ambassador made em phatic denial to-night of reports that his country has made overtures to russia or any other power for peace he said to the examiner correspond ent such reports are a revival of old stories that have been discredited there is not a word of truth in them and absolutely no foundation for their circulation anybody who knows the situation will understand that from the very nature of things such a statement could not be true i hope the exam iner will deny them emphatically parker sees austrian move as a possibility by sir gilbert parker london dec 27 1t is possible that austria has made unofficial and indirect overtures to russia because her situation is desperate it is also possible but not probable that ger many has made overtures to russia she would only make such overtures when her case was desperate it is not yet desperate to make such overtures would be confession both of weakness and des peration personally i don't think germany has been so foolish could she conceive that russia would tear up her bond with great britain and france as she germany tore up the treaty with belgium does she think chat every nation is infamous 2vo gain by treachery suppose russia assented to a treaty of peace with germany and austria it would involve an alliance with ger many and austria to enforce a treaty ot peace to which they would agree i does the world think that even j if such ghastly treachery were done < by russia england and franca ' only one man lost in british sea raid ships stand by under terrific fire from germans cannon to rescue aviators who fall into the water constantinople dec 28 3:38 a m an official com munication issued sunday says one of our warships on decem ber 24 met a russian squadron composed of five battleships two cruisers ten destroyers and three mine layers the turkish ship sin glehanded during the night at tacked and bombarded the battle ship rostislav and sank the two mine layers oleg and athos twoi russian officers and thirty sailors were rescued and taken prisoners i simultaneously another portion of our fleet successfully bombarded batum on december 25 in the forenoon two of our ships offered battle to the russian fleet which letreated to sebastopol london dec~27 â€” the dutch steamer leersum struck a mine and sank in the north sea to-day two of the crew of nineteen were , drowned the others were landed at scarborough the british steam er gallier struck a mine and was severely injured she reached scarborough london dec 27 e ngland learned to-day from its own admir alty the story of the british raid on cuxhaven and the nation thrilled with the glow of patriotic pride it was not so much the daring of the british raiders in creeping pasi the fortress island of heligoland re garded as one of the most impreg nable strongholds in the world and then past the fortified island of nen werk with a great network of mine . fields intervening to reach cux haven it was not so much the prompt ness with which the admiralty set about to avenge in kind mm german raid on scarborough and hartlepool stood by to rhsscuk am nor was it so much the remai able composition of the avenging fleet which included the most mod ern of light warships the armed and armored ultramodern hydroaero planes and the most terrific of naval war machines the submarines all of which made the raid and returned home successfully but the fact that appealed to ths british sportsman's heart â€” and most every briton is a sportsman â€” was that while the british air pilots wi gone on up to the schlllig roads to ' bombard the german battle hi from the air the lighi cruisers â– stroyers and submarines stood by until the last of the airmen hud been accounted for though for th hours and more they were ass i furiously from the air and from under the sea by a terrific attack of bombs and torpedoes from zeppelins and submarines a berlin dispatch to the exchange telegram company says the british attack on cuxhaven caused the greatest excitement throughout ger many the extent of the damage in flicted upon the german sfliipi is be ing kept hidden in official ein the german public is criticising efficiency of the mine field of heli goland bight through which the british warships steamed the daily mail's copenhagen cor respondent says he learns from ham burg that considerable damage was caused at cuxhaven by th british air raid for unexampled daring for bril liancy fif execution a-pj r pefltur'es introduced i haven raid â– â– >â– * : - " down into history i:s the moal ren val feat yet accomplished the battle furnished one great mil itary lesson â€” that dirigibles of i continued on 2d page 4th column extra the 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